1920
15681

FROM THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOR AND DEFENSE
MAY 28, 1920
PURSUANT TO THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSARIAT OF ENLIGHTENMENT

a) Instruct the State Publishing House to present to the Council of Labor and Defense reports on measures for reducing publication in general in favor of publications necessary for the Western Front.

b) Draw the attention of the Commissariat of Enlightenment to strengthening control over the swift and precise execution of its resolutions on aid to the Western Front.

c) Propose to the Commissariat of Enlightenment to render every possible assistance to the military authorities in the sense of applying voluntarism and to adopt all measures within its power in this regard.

ON INCREASING PRODUCTION OF MINE BARRIERS

a) Propose to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to detach from the Caucasus Front and fleet and from the Fifth Army 300 qualified workers for dispatch to mines production plants. The Industrial-Military Council shall present to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic a list by name of unqualified workers at mines production plants operating on the Western and Southwestern Fronts.

The Revolutionary Military Council must carry out the detachment of these workers in cases where it does not cause particular harm to the front.

A report from the Revolutionary Military Council is to be scheduled for three weeks hence.

b) Obligate the Petrograd Soviet of the National Economy and Labor Committee to transfer workers from plants not working for defense or executing orders that can temporarily be delayed to plants executing orders for mines.

LENIN COLLECTION

As workers are delivered, Red Army personnel must be returned to their units.

Instruct the Main Committee of Labor and the Petrograd Soviet of the National Economy to submit a report on this question in two weeks.

c) Instruct the Main Committee of Labor to provide 200 unqualified workers for work on mines production and to submit a report on this in 2 weeks.

ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION 
FOR INVESTIGATION OF MILITARY SUPPLY ORGANS

Organize a temporary extraordinary commission to examine the procedures in the Central Supply Administration and its local organs, which resulted in the dispatch to the front of defective ammunition in large quantities on two occasions.

Place Comrade Kursky at the head of the commission, with the participation of representatives—one from the Revolutionary Tribunal of the Republic and one from the Special Department of the ChEKA. Grant the commission the right to immediately remove all workers of the Central Supply Administration, regardless of their position, and to bring the guilty to trial.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from Protocol No. 125
of the session of the Council of Labor and Defense,
May 28, 1920

25162

NOTATION ON THE TELEGRAM 
OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE*

May 31, 1920

To Lydia Aleksandrovna

Give me the wire right now and I will reply.

((Detain Kirov here.)) 9:25 p.m.**

Lenin

* The notation was made on a telegram containing a request to set a time for direct wire negotiations.

** On May 29 S. M. Kirov was appointed plenipotentiary of the RSFSR to Menshevik Georgia. Before departing from Moscow, he received directives directly from Lenin. In this case Lenin is arranging with the secretary (L. A. Fotiyeva) the time for one of the personal conversations with Comrade Kirov.